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What the loan actually costs to pay back

Generic EMI calculators get student loans wrong because they ignore the moratorium. The years you are studying, when you are not repaying principal but interest is still running. That single choice changes the total by lakhs.

How much are you borrowing?

NPR 40 lakh

NPR 5 lakhNPR 150 lakh

Interest rate

11.00% a year

6.00% a year18.00% a year

Ask your bank for the actual figure in writing, quoted rates move.

Repayment period

10 years

3 years20 years

Counted from the end of the moratorium, not from today.

Moratorium

30 months

None60 months

Course length plus the grace period before repayment starts.

During your course

This is the choice that matters most.

Your sponsor’s yearly income

Optional. It checks whether the repayment is plausible against what the family earns.

Rather not say

Rather not sayNPR 80 lakh
Monthly EMI
NPR 70,253
for 10 years, once repayment starts
Total interest
NPR 44.3 lakh
NPR 44,30,301
Total repaid
NPR 84.3 lakh
2.11× what you borrowed

While you are still studying

Interest over the 30-month moratorium
NPR 11,00,000

Added to your loan, and then charged interest itself for the whole repayment period.

Owed when repayment starts
NPR 51,00,000

More than you borrowed, because the interest joined the principal.

Paying the interest monthly during the course instead would save about NPR 7.18 lakh over the life of the loan. It would cost roughly NPR 36,667 a month while you study. Worth asking your family whether that is manageable.

The loan is only half the question

An officer will ask what this loan is for, what secures it, and how it gets repaid. A student who cannot answer that in their own words loses the application however good the numbers are.

Nepali banks have commonly quoted education loans in the region of 10 to 13 per cent, secured against property. Your actual rate depends on the bank, the collateral and the relationship, ask for it in writing. This calculator is for planning only. The bank's own sanction letter is the figure that counts.

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